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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. References Holiday, R.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S Fuqua’s Class of 2016 was just as impressive, garnering 20 internships at Deloitte, 11 at BCG, 9 at McKinsey, and 8 at Bain. The post 2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you. Do you agree with our list?

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CEOs Are Getting Fired for Ethical Lapses More Than They Used To

Harvard Business

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase. On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. and Canada (from 1.6% to 8.8%).

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016. billion ($1.39

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). They offer a chance for everyone to relax and socially connect. However, they should never serve as a smokescreen for underlying company problems.

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Praising Customers for Ethical Purchases Can Backfire

Harvard Business

In one study, participants viewed a short 40-second Starbucks commercial that either praised a customer for making an ethical purchase (it used phrasing such as: “Everything we do, you do. billion in 2015 , companies have been spending more on cause-related marketing—it reached about $2 billion dollars in 2016.

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Best Business Books 2016: Technology

Strategy+Business

Sheil Jasanoff provides a counterweight to such optimism, arguing in The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, that our tendency to delegate too much power to impressive technological systems can lead to undesired results.

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